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Sunday, April 15, 2007

8 Years of Computing Time Since 2004

No, my maths isn't crazy. On 17th March 2004 I joined the grid.org computing project. Since then various PCs at home and work have together donated 8 years of calculating time for various scientific projects.

The software is very non-intrusive: you install it and it runs in the background, backing off as soon as you do other things. Why not volunteer your PC or laptop? It has a lot of computing power that doesn't get used for most of the time.